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Using sketch blocks

Using sketch blocks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using sketch blocks

- [Instructor] Blocks are independent non-solving sketches that can be used in a variety of ways. inside of SolidWorks. The most common would be to copy a sketch and then use that sketch somewhere else in your design. By creating a block, all the entities in the block become frozen and can be manipulated as a whole. We can save blocks for later use as well as open blocks that were created in these SolidWorks format as well as formats like the AutoCAD, DWG, and DXF formats. To insert a block into your design. We first need to turn on the blocks toolbar and that's what I'm going to do right now. So if you come up here to the top of the screen you can see we've got the individual tabs here. We can turn things on or off using these toolbars tabs right here. Or you can just right click anywhere in the gray area here and come over here, same thing and click on toolbars. Then come down here to blocks, turn that on. And…

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